James Palawaga is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building backend and distributed systems, currently contributing to Polytomic from New York. He has a track record of improving scalability and reliability鈥攎igrating millions of records with zero downtime, rearchitecting slow features into distributed services, and shaping internal engineering practices at companies like PlanGrid and Autodesk. Equally comfortable shipping code and mentoring teams, he鈥檚 been a founding member of small product teams and a principal engineer driving architectural decisions. His background spans game-platform SDKs to construction and enterprise software, reflecting a knack for translating customer needs into durable technical solutions. Beyond hands-on engineering, he has run a consulting practice, showing an ability to quickly diagnose problems and deliver pragmatic, long-lived results.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree (Hons), Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree (Hons), Computer Science at The University of Lethbridge
SQLDelight - Generates typesafe Kotlin APIs from SQL
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 4 branches in 9 months
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